CSU stadium plans don't have benefit of Hollywood tactics

Nov. 24, 2012

You keep running columns explaining why Jim McElwain can turn things around (“Coach Mac deserves some time to turn things around,” by Miles Blumhardt, Nov. 18), or why things have become such a mess with previous coaches (“CSU’s woes worse than anyone knew,” by Kelly Lyell, Nov. 21). Of course, they are both wrong. All CSU needs to have a winning team is a new $300 million on-campus field. Just think of the movie “Field of Dreams” and paraphrasing what Kevin Costner heard, “If you build it, [they] will come.” Of course, what came in the movie was a team of ghosts. The money to be raised and the football team to be recruited according to Tony Frank and Jack Graham are also ghosts.